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Serial Bridging Opengear console servers can be configured to support serial bridging - for interconnecting serial devices over a network. Serial tunneling is the encapsulation of serial data into network packets, and the transport of the data over a network. When configured to work in tandem, two console servers can act as a virtual serial cable over IP network. 
One console server is configured as the server end, with the serial port to be bridged set in Console Server mode with either RFC2217 or RAW enabled. The client IM/CM/SD4000 gateway at the other end has the serial port set in bridging mode:
You could alternately use the command line to set up the ends of the tunnel e.g. assuming you are connecting port 1 of the client to port 1 on the server, and the client side IP is 192.168.0.100 (the server side is 192.168.0.101): # config -s config.ports.port1.mode=unused # kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/portmanager.pid) # pmbridge -l /dev/ttyS0 192.168.0.101 5001 The first two commands disable portmanager from using "port 1". The third command starts the tunnel bridging serial port 1 to 192.168.254.0.101 tcp port 5001. The server side must have RFC-2217 enabled on port 1 and you will now have end to end connectivity. |
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